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Deutsche Bank Fires Two Senior Trading Executives
August 6th, 2015
Ben Solomon and Ashish Jain are no longer with the bank Deutsche Bank AG has fired two senior trading executives for alleged lax supervision of a pair of more junior employees whose communications with clients allegedly violated the lender’s policies, a ...
China Shares Fall; Japan Rises Ahead of U.S. Jobs Data
August 6th, 2015
Bank, energy firms pressure Australian shares China’s shares fell and bank shares pressured Australia on Thursday, but Japan’s market rose ahead of a key jobs report in the U.S. later this week. The Shanghai Composite Index was last down ...
Execution Broker ITG Ousts CEO Gasser After Probe
August 4th, 2015
Investment Technology Group’s investigation found Robert Gasser failed to disclose some details of alleged improprieties to board The announcement of ITG was saying that the company has replaced Bob Gasser as its chief executive officer with Jarrett Lilien, a ...
Asian shares up despite weak US lead
August 4th, 2015
Asian markets traded mostly higher on Tuesday despite a lacklustre lead from Wall Street, where US stocks closed down on weak economic data. US data on Monday showed weaker manufacturing activity and a modest gain in consumer spending as ...
Asian stocks near 2015 lows on China worry, dollar steadies
August 3rd, 2015
An index of Asian shares outside Japan fell close to this year’s lows on Monday thanks to a deepening selloff in commodities and fresh concerns over slowing growth in China, while the dollar held its ground against a basket of ...
Fed To Markets: You’re STILL Too Easy To Fool!
July 31st, 2015
These days no matter what the Federal Reserve actually says, the markets respond like dogs sensing a piece of bacon coming their way. This is so for several reasons: 1) The world is vastly overleveraged, which terrifies investors and ...
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) trading has gone insane
July 31st, 2015
Activity led by SPY, which trades about $24 billion a day for eye-popping turnover of 3,400% Everyone is talking about how exchange-traded funds have now overtaken hedge funds in terms of total assets. That’s small change compared with how much ...
Asian shares edge up, wary of China volatility
July 31st, 2015
Asia markets record monthly loss after China drop U.S. GDP data reinforces bets that Fed is on track to hike Nikkei down after Japanese data disappoints Gold, copper record losses on stronger dollar Asian shares inched higher on ...
The Six Biggest Mistakes Investors Make
July 30th, 2015
Investing isn’t a game. If you screw up, real money is lost. As a broker and supervisor for a major discount brokerage firm for close to two decades, I saw it firsthand. People lost their children’scollege tuitions and even their ...
Asian shares, dollar up on Fed’s optimism; earnings in focus
July 30th, 2015
Asian stocks tiptoed higher on Thursday and the dollar consolidated recent gains after the U.S. Federal Reserve painted a relatively bright picture of the economy, but a deepening sell-off in commodities kept gains in check. Prospects of stronger U.S. ...
